Language Between Description and Prescription
Subtitle: Verbs and Verb Categories in Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780190270674
Subjects: English language, verb; English language, grammar; English language, standardization
Description: Based on 258 English grammar books, 'Language Between Description and Prescription' investigates nineteenth-century grammar writing relating to actual language change, especially in the verb phrase. Lieselotte Andewald proposes that not all changes were noticed in the first place, and those that were noticed were not necessarily criticized.